2010 University of Illinois Writing Project

Embedding Media

uiwp Summer Institute — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:42:44 +0000

Inserting Media

How to embed a video from YouTube or a .mov file

Get the embed code from YouTube.

Go to the “Source” view (link is on the bottom of the page). Find the text prior to the place where you’d like to position your movie. Paste in code. Save file and view in browser window. Movie will not appear in SeaMonkey composer view.

You can also embed movies that you store on your server (in your uiwp folder).

A simple code for doing this is

For greater control over alignment and sizing, try this:

1. Go to http://cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia/step1.php

2. Select Quicktime

3. Select web server and then hit submit

4. In “web server,” type the full netfiles address. For example,

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bridgem2/uiwp/mywritingwalk.mov

5. Delete items in file path line. 6. Answer the following questions. You'll probably want to answer "no" for start automatically; "yes" 7. After you hit submit, you'll get code to copy. For example, I got:

Another similar resource is http://www.freevideocoding.com/

UIWP Marathon

uiwp Summer Institute — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:23:35 +0000

Here is a link to some pictures I took from the UIWP Marathon. If you like, you can upload your own images here. You can download images from this link:

http://gallery.me.com/pb112233

–Patrick

Video Links

uiwp Summer Institute — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:48:36 +0000

Here are some of the video links all in one place.

Bridgey’s My Writing Walk

Esther’s Food Writing

Janet by Stephanie

Jen’s interview by Esther

Laura’s Dragon Poem

Scott’s JediReads

Sonia Shares by Elizabeth

Stephanie’s Literacy Process

Wendy’s Writing Process

graphic narrative bibliography

uiwp Summer Institute — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:39:21 +0000

Spencer Schaffner’s graphic narrative bibliography has been posted to our site but can also be found here.

poetry and podcasts

uiwp Summer Institute — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:09:59 +0000

Here are links to the podcast poems we made on Friday. THREE new one’s have been added: Dave’s, Wendy’s, and Sonia’s.

Enjoy!

Anthony
Bob
Dave
Elizabeth
Esther
Laura
Patrick (and Emma)
Patty
Sonia
Scott
Stephanie
Wendy

Open Comments

uiwp Summer Institute — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:46:25 +0000

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Welcome to the 2010 Summer Institute of UIWP

uiwp Summer Institute — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:31:30 +0000

Welcome, teacher!

The Invitational Summer Institute is the cornerstone of the UIWP and is designed for experienced teachers from all disciplines and at all levels of instruction. Participating teachers will

have opportunities to demonstrate their own best practices and classroom successes;
study writing theory and research;
experience the writing process by writing and sharing their writing in small groups;
learn about digital literacy and video as a rhetorical medium through hands-on training;
publish their work on-line.